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発音

• Adjective: ĭlă'b(ə)rət, IPA: /ɪˈlæb.(ə.)ɹət/
• Verb: ĭlă'bərāt, (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹæɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /əˈlæb.ə.ɹæɪt/

形容詞

elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)

1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

   Synonym: fussy

   After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.

2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

   Synonym: busy

   I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

派生語

動詞

elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)

1. (transitive) Тo develop in detail or complexity.

   Synonym: work out

   • 1871, “Bismarck”, in All the Year Round, volume 5, page 129:

     […] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.

   • 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:

     The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.

2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by the prepositions on or upon) To expand/enlarge in detail.

   What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?

   Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

派生語

参照

• “elaborate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

動詞

ēlabōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēlabōrō